How I assumed buggers looked
How I assumed buggers looked
I always assumed the buggers looked a lot like the Antican race from Final Fantasy 11. I loathe how they represent them in the comics.
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I don't recall how many legs they were said to walk on but they are definitely not as tall as humans. As locke said, the ceilings on Eros were quite low.
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked
I always thought of the buggers as a mix between the aliens in Alien, and insects on earth
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I imagined that they would look something like a water beetle...
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked
I sort of pictured big, upright cockroach.
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There is a description in the book when Graff is explaining their possible evolution to Ender. He says they are very much like ants (at least they were 100 million years ago). Since then, they evolved and lost their exoskeleton and gained an internal skeletal structure.
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I found the section. It is on page 248 (Kindle location 5134 of 7050). Graff says, " They evolved an internal skeleton and shed most of their exoskeleton, their physical structure still echoed their ancestors, who could easily have been very much like Earth's ants."
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Yeah, I remembered this and wondered where others got their impressions they looked anything other than ant-like.I found the section. It is on page 248 (Kindle location 5134 of 7050). Graff says, " They evolved an internal skeleton and shed most of their exoskeleton, their physical structure still echoed their ancestors, who could easily have been very much like Earth's ants."
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked
I always figured they looked a bit like the geonosians from star wars, but green, and with less of an exoskeleton...
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked
Well, if you read Xenocide, it says that the Buggers are short (under five feet) and black, and they grab them (Novinha, Ender, Miro, etc.) by the hands, so they have to have at least two legs off of the ground.
To tell you the truth, I imagined them to look like this:
Which you may recognize as the aliens from District 9.
To tell you the truth, I imagined them to look like this:
Which you may recognize as the aliens from District 9.
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As I remember, the ceiling isn't that low everywhere on Eros... Weren't most of the rooms high enough so even people could stand up? Only the corridors were low, which might indicate that the Buggers travel (fast) on (almost) all their leggs, but when standing still (or moving slow), they only stand on 2 or 4 leggs...
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Re: How I assumed buggers looked
That's pretty much the impression I got, especially after reading SiF. The corridors in the ship there were too low even for the Leguminotes.
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